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Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox: Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) Flexible Trip Planner, Final Report
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2020-01-01
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Edition:Final Report, January 2017–March 2019
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Abstract:When the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) embarked on its MOD Sandbox project in early 2017, “fexible multimodal transit trip planning” (software for trip planning that seamlessly integrates demand-responsive modes of transit with fxed-route transit) was an idea that had never been implemented. Two years later, there is an emerging marketplace of providers that support routing similar to the routing that Vermont frst launched. Most of the players in that market are directly engaged in working with the technologies developed through the VTrans MOD Sandbox project, and other transportation providers are researching how to collaborate with the open data approach pursued by VTrans. The VTrans MOD Sandbox started from the problem statement “Trip planning software on the market does not work for residents of Vermont, because it is focuses on the needs of urban transit riders.”To address that problem, the project team leveraged and augmented two existing technologies—GTFS-fex, an open data extension of the widely-used General Transit Feed Specifcation that describes demand-responsive transit services, and OpenTripPlanner (OTP), an open source software application used by more than 30 transit agencies around the world to provide automated itineraries for transit trips. Together, this data and software combination provided a uniform way to describe fexible transit services around Vermont and an application ready to be adapted to leverage that data, which already included most of the features VTrans sought. Thus, VTrans was able to create a system wholly owned by the State of Vermont without ongoing license fees. The outcomes of this project—GTFS-fex data sets, lessons for fex data contributed to a revised GTFS-fex v2, and the OTP adaptations—were contributed back to the community and are available for use by any party.
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